I've finished the regular campaign, and I liked it a lot. The level design was good, and it had some good puzzles. The only really bad thing I have to say about it is that it is possible to get into unwinnable states sometimes, even to have it checkpointed in an unwinnable state, which definately su...

The Enforcer is ridiculously good and I'm sure it will be nerfed soon. I was playing Dead Ringer + Enforcer spy just now and comfortably top scored in a game with some really good players. Most of the time I didn't even bother to disguise unless I had to take out a sentry or something, I just ran in...

Anyway, I've been coaching one of my friends. He's decided to go Demo, and I've been giving him advice that will be incredibly useful seeing as I only ever play Demo on Degroot. Help? The sticky launcher is one of the best weapons in the game and is great for new demos because stickies have a large...

Somewhat ninja'd, but anyway. Yeah, I think I visualize things similarly to Ortus and KestrelLowing. If I think of, say, a red house, I get a sort of an image, but it doesn't have much in the way of details and I have to concentrate to keep the 'image'. The black with vague hints of color that I usu...

I played a game on dustbowl a while ago where I was on BLU attacking the last point of the last stage. The other team had 4 or 5 engis all with wranglers sitting behind the point. We had about 20 minutes for that point and we were barely able to cap it in time due a coordinated sapping spree + uber ...

I agree with most of what BurningLed said, but I'll throw in my 2c on a few weapons. Scout: Mad Milk is pretty cool. I wouldn't consider it a strict upgrade over the pistol but it's definitely worth trying. The Holy Mackerel > Bat if you like sillyness in your TF2. Heavy: GRU > Fists IMO, since you'...

I haven't tried it yet, but I love the change to the flaregun. It's exactly what I thought they should do. Flareing people is so fun, but it was very underpowered compared to the other weapons. It's not like a 45-damage minicrit for hitting twice was even that much. The backburner change is pretty i...

So a bunch of asian cards from New Phyrexia have been leaked , translations are here . There's a quite a few interesting cards. Phyrexian Canceller looks extremely broken. A 5/5 trampler for 4 with a really good ability? Yeah... He can probably only be reliably played on T4 in mono-black though. Kar...

The deck you're talking about is basically Kuldotha Red , by the way. As has already been mentioned, Ratchet Bomb and Pyroclasm are great. Other good options are Arc Trail, Forked Bolt, Slagstorm and Black Sun's Zenith. Shrivel and Marsh Casualties are okay, but are not as flexible as BSZ. Ratchet B...

Ugh, it looks like Blizzard broke SC2 with the latest patch. After not playing for about 2 months, I had to download a 3rd party VPN program just to get the game to download new content. And now I still lag badly whenever I play online. Sigh.

If you're comparing the power of the sets, I don't think we should assume that the same restrictions as vintage has apply. You should be able to 4-of moxes, black lotus, time walk, ancestral recall etc.

I have 3 major problems right now: Expanding, stopping opponents expanding, and attacking. Here are some general guidelines: Good times to expand: ⋅ When your opponent has just expanded. Since they have just sunk 400 minerals into an expansion, you probably wont be behind on army/tech if ...

I also went to two prereleases: one on Saturday and one on Sunday. I played an okay U/R Mirran deck in the first prerelease. The only really good rares I got were Steel Hellkite and Cryptoplasm, but I had a fair number of nice red removal spells. I ended up going 3-2, and got 2 boosters. The second ...

Also, I think people might be making too many broad assumptions about the phyrexian side, and about playing infect in limited in general. Drafting Scars, for example, I would occasionally end up with a deck with some mix of infect cards and non-infect cards. It was never the pre-determined "OM...

Has anyone thought about which side to pick in the upcoming prerelease? It looks like the metagame is going to be predominantly Phyrexian, but I'm not so sure that Phyrexian is a good idea. The likelihood of getting stuck with an awkward half-infect, half-normal deck seems moderately high. On the o...

I love Shakuras plateau, because the games tend to turn into long macro games. I just played a game where I make quite the comeback, mostly due to his bad macro. I'm Upside in the rep. I fast expand into Colossus transitioning into HT transitioning into losing my whole fucking base because I sent ha...

Marauders are not fine. It's a tank with decent dps and stim and a slowing attack, and it's pretty cheap to boot. Seriously. What the hell. Although to be fair, I'm mostly just pissed that I spent forever trying execute a PvT fast expand build against the AI, and was getting roflstomped by a ridicul...

I'd do something similar to Neuman. I'd go far enough into the future to the point where medicine/technology can make humans live for ever, or for very, very long. Then I'd go way back in time and play god.

Also, time travel is real, though not in the way envisioned in this thread.

If you really want a weapon, you can fake the relevant achievements on an achievement server. Any weapon that is not obtainable through achievements (the community-made ones and the gunboats) has a specific recipe consisting of items that are obtainable through achievements (e.g. bonk + kritzkrieg =...

I think each watch has its place. The dead ringer used to be my favorite when it was first released because it was ridiculously powerful (large ammo pack = full charge = dead ringer ready as soon as you decloak = almost never die). It has since become much more reasonable and it's still great fun, b...

Preordain makes me sad as the new Ponder, which to my mind is the best one mana sorcery in the game. I would have said Cabal Therapy or Duress or one of the tutors. Unless you were talking about standard, in which case fair enough. Also, I dunno, I think I would prefer preordain to ponder, though m...

Man, half-life is awesome. It's also almost certainly the game I've finished the most times. I can finish the whole thing in about an hour and half, and there was a time when I was playing it fully through about once per day.

Going back to a post a made when I first started playing - I have to say this game is well balanced, but there are some unlockable items which are pretty much strictly better than the default counterparts. ... And, to me at least Sandvich > Shotgun ... (Emphasis mine). ... but when would you really...

Uh, I always thought drug sniffing dogs were better trained than that. You're only going to make the relevant authorities more suspicious by trying something like that, and it's pretty unnecessary if you don't actually have any drugs in your bag...

Question about sniping: is there something I should be aware of with the hit boxes? I've seen some 'pro' videos and often times it seems like they don't hit the target but get a headshot, while I've played games with a low ping and clearly headshoted someone with no result. Most times when you watc...

Don't rely much on disguises to avoid detection because there are many ways a skilled player can tell a spy from a teamie. It's much better to not be seen at all if possible. Uncharged headshots (150 dmg) kill scouts, engis, medics, snipers, spies and demos with the sword and no heads. It doesn't ta...

I like the changes to the FaN, since now it could possibly be used to actually knock people off of things instead of straight up. It also probably means the knockback will be less annoying for your opponent in regular combat. I haven't tried the new dead ringer yet, but it was OP before the update s...